/lit/ - Literature

>>12052445
roll for a read over the weekend

>>12044691
I definitely feel this too. I was recently talking to relatives I don't politically agree with and was struck at how different the issues that they were concerned with were from mine. They spend large amounts of time researching and debating what seem to me absolute non issues -the migrant caravan, Benghazi, planned Parenthood, et cetera. Looking in as an outsider these issues seem manufactured to cause outrage and now I'm paranoid about which manufactured outrages are targeted at me. I try to stay away from partisan media and look towards trusted news sources, but there are only maybe three that I actually trust now (AP, Reuters, and BBC for non British news)

I have a hard time even discussing politics now because every issue that people are concerned about seems completely tangential to what matters to me. It's like we lack a shared vocabulary or even a shared set of values. I feel ideologically homeless these days

https://mobile.twitter.com/Fuctupmind/status/1056971162566250496/video/1

This is what a humanities "intellectual" looks like in this era.

>>11952168
Dumb cosplay poster

Any books you recommend on human consciousness being a mistake?

how do we triumph over irony?

>Being bit more on creative side, but having little to no morals and meaning to convey, zero predisposition for building cohesive and elaborate stories and generaly not much to write about (Not to mention writing something actually novel)
Books for that feel?

Is there any book that can make up for the feeling of missing out on any social life in my 20s and never having had female attention ever?

Don't bother trying to find any books. There are none. Some dumb book from 150 years ago about a rich guy seeing a woman's ankle is no substitute and no source of familiar feelings. Novels these days are a medium endorsed by a centralised cabal of sjw midwits. No book will talk about issues like women having Chads on tap due to the internet, NPCs, any reasonable person's complete disconnect from the wider culture.

If you didn't go to Oxbridge or one of H/Y/P/S/NYU/Amh/Will then you're not getting in either.

>realised too late that effort and inspiration count for shit and you have to succeed through being in the correct institutions

Nobody is writing true to life stuff. I am no genius but I can make at least 5 "stunning and contrarian" insights just by saying what I see.

The more that I read about history, the less respect I have for the pseud trend of presenting literature as something completely transcending current events or human emotions or common sense or even commercialism. Older novels were so of their time and so responsive to current events.

When I read just a little bit about socialist revolutionaries in 19th century Russia, Dostoevsky seems less pointless and more grounded. But I have somehow less respect for the pseuds of today who venerate him.

Of course the same applies to philosophy, in the form of whatever bullshit happens to be accepted.

The consumercuck / producerbull dichotomy is slightly relevant here. Consumercucks are the ones who push this transcendent nonsense while producerbulls don't engage in this agenda pushing. If The Brothers Karamazov is about the transcendent nature of souls or such bullshit, the consumercuck (in the form of critiquers) can justify his pompous and high minded bullshitting as necessary or correct. If the book is merely a response to current events and ideas in Dostoevsky's time, what you need to discuss the book is a knowledge of 19th century russian history and dates and institutions: dirty stuff that is beneath the pompous critiquer.

Dostoevsky wrote mostly crap but I think he was right about physiognomy. I am starting to believe in it. I am also pretty sure that normies all derive from about 12 templates, 6 for each gender. They are all blending together.

All living off the land / hunting / survival nonsense is bullshit. It's all for brainlets. There is nothing rewarding about it. Yes, humans and animals and land haven't changed much within the past few thousand years but the people in these activities use whatever cutting edge equipment they happen to have in whatever time they live in, be it 2018, 1958, 1908, 2118. How is that rewarding? There is no purity. Your underwear is space age tech.

I put DIY in the above category. Of course it's not related to the outdoors but I dislike it for the same reason. Drudging within whatever manmade constructs have been built with the technology of the time is not rewarding.

I am a right winger but I have to admit that everything these days is produced by cucky males who support Blairism.

This military "hoorah" stuff is bullshit. Nobody ever actually achieved anything through it in their personal lives. Even in military battles, one side already had the overwhelming numbers advantage. I cringe when I see it being espoused on Joe Rogan.

The most dangerous countries in the world are Canada, Australia, and New Zealand because they have the Anglo intelligence but with zero history or tradition. Future atrocities will come from these countries. The USA is sadly sliding in to South American style irrelevance but I want to see it happen sooner, out of curiosity.

We are living in a new philosophical dark age (just within Philosophy, as distinct from science). The subject has run its course. It now has two worthless functions: Flailing about within the unfalsifiable while judging itself solely through fashion. And standing on the frontier of science and making unfalsifiable theories about unknown areas of physical knowledge.

>>11697099
>Niggerland
Woah, he didn't say Africa. Please tell me how to be le edgy race redpill like you, anon.
>The real problem is getting white nationalist consciousness at a high enough level so that when the third world masses start knocking at the Wall we can tell them to fuck off and starve
And for all this talk of redpilling and hard truths, /pol/ can be so naive at times.

>>>/pol/

>it's another /pol/ bait thread.

>it's another no-name /pol/tard pseud trying to shill their self-published book on /lit/ by pretending to be an interested third party

>>11459074
>>11459110
>it's another no-name /pol/tard pseud trying to shill their self-published book on /lit/ by pretending to be other interested parties

>>11301599
Everything about this post is terrible.

>>11234397

>>11193656
>he still thinks containment threads work and don't simply exacerbate the problem.

I want nu-/lit/ to leave

>russian novel
>chapter dedicated to character arguing with his landlord
this always happens

>>11066766
Nonsense. This is what you tell yourself to justify your behavior. And, in any event, it doesn't matter unless you fastidiously compare yourself to the best people in your field, which is no way to get anywhere. Imagine an eighteen year old Victor Wooten crying because he isn't as good as Charles Mingus. It's unproductive self pity, it's a waste of time, and if you enjoy what you do (e.g. playing bass) it doesn't matter in terms of practice whether or not you will ever, in fact, be as good as Victor Wooten.

>>11012013
>thread about the degradation of a society over the last 250 years
>post crime statistics for the last 15